Open Razer The past present and future

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OpenRazer provides a fully open Linux stack that controls Razer peripherals and now supports 175+ devices supported, letting users change RGB, DPI, polling rate and other device-specific features. It uses a kernel driver + daemon + Python library architecture, with a C++ Qt front end and community PRs adding most device support. Ongoing work adds integration tests with a fake driver to enable refactoring and reduce kernel-side code while keeping existing devices working.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:33What is OpenRazer?
3. 2:14Architecture
4. 3:55The history
5. 8:15Linux distributions
6. 9:15The future
7. 16:23How you can help
8. 22:59The ecosystem

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